Affiliation:
1. Virginia Commonwealth University, USA,
Abstract
This community-based qualitative inquiry asks: what is the meaning and impact of taking psychiatric medications in the lives of people with severe mental illness living in a residential program. Participants were twenty-one adults with extensive histories of mental illness, numerous hospitalizations, currently taking multiple medications. In addition to a thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews, participants each created a color drawing related to their experience with medication, which they titled and ‘interpreted’ themselves (see http://blog.vcu.edu/kbentley/). The main finding is a distillation of themes into a seven dimension typology of the meaning. A staff-resident Advisory Panel guided the research, and final results take into account participant feedback and member checking. Included here are plans and hopes for using the findings to enhance specific programming at the residential program to better reflect the role and importance of medication issues in the everyday lives of residents.
Subject
Social Sciences (miscellaneous),Health(social science)
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